From Shakespeare to today's entertainment, shows of all sorts have been based on demand from the audience. Violence is a major demand; people want to see blood and gore, so it is supplied. Authors use what effects they can to please their audience, and by doing so, generations have grown accustom to seeing such violence. No, violence on TV does not have the ability to "ruin" society, because our nation and many others, were already violent.

All societies are violent with or with out entertainment. For instance the "Rule of Thumb" (a law stating that any man may beat his wife or family members with a stick, as long as it were no wider than his thumb) and Mary Ellen McCormick (first recorded child abuse, Miss McCormick had to be proven a member of the animal kingdom by the New York society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to a judge under the laws against animal cruelty) was long before any movies had incorporated violence in the house hold.

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Not to mention anything else from the past such as the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War, both were long before the movies "Saving Private Ryan" or "We Were Soldiers".

The human race is one of the only species that kills just to kill. For instance the Spanish Inquisition, authorized by Pope Gregory IX, in 1231, to eradicate "Heretics" from this world was certainly not after he watched "Schiendlers List". Hitler did not decide to take his preemptive strike against Scandinavia because of some television show. Last but not least the organization that brought the second attack on our nation on September 11, 2001 most likely had other reasons than having just watched "Pearl Harbor".

Reviews of: "Violence in Entertainment":

While it is true that violence existed in the world long before the advent of television, that's not to say that television violence does not aggravate the problem. If violence on television makes a bad situation worse, then it is only natural for concerned individuals to want to control it. You may want to do some research to determine if studies suggest there is a link between violence in the media and the propensity of some individuals to behave more violently.

You are making to many assumptions. Despite the horrific extent of the september 11 atack, it was "praised" all over the world for it's mastery. Such a plan cannot be fueled only only by a man's capacity to think, it has to be influenced by what is around us and things that are available. It is hard to assume that these attacks were not influenced by violence. Such catastrophy cannot be shrugged and gotten over... you urself said that Teens have said that 'September 11 did not seem to hit them the way they felt it should have'

you have just contradicted your whole argument that violence in the media has not affected us in a negative way... this is a very negative effect of the media... something so catastrophic, so horrific so mercyless can be jsut shrugged of because soemthing on tv is much worse than that? and then u say that tv is good and "human" is bad...

this needs to be corrected in ur essay...

Also it was very amusing =) it made me laugh which is good, but i'd say it was incomplete. It's more of a speech than an essay...

The theme or your paper has been subject to study the world over for many many years. Many psychologists have studied the phenomenon presented here and shown a significance between media violence and aggression amongst people. This paper needs to check into some research and back up what is being said. Otherwise it is well written smooth reading.

Sorry, I was not at all persuaded by your arguments. Entertainment is not restricted to the television set, which your essay would have us believe. To say that "all societies are violent" is quite a broad statement. If you investigated, you would find societies that do not know violence.

This is an interesting essay. Although there were some contradictory thoughts brought up throughout, I found that they gave further insight into the way this issue is percieved by boths sides of the argument.

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